Heater.



PATENTED JAN. 21, 1908.

W. H. GALLIHAN.

HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 11. 1907.

W/TNESSES A TTOHNEYS I To all whom it concern:

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIE H. oALLIHAN', OF B AUMoNnrExAs.

HEATER.

Be it known that I, WILLIE H. OALLIHAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Beaumont, in the county of Jefferson and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Heater, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to, heaters using crude 011 or other hydro-carbon oil as fuel, and its object is to provide a new and im proved stove or heater, more especially designed for heating rooms and the like, and arranged to insure combustion, to produce a uniform heat at a minimum expenditure of the liquid fuel, and to prevent the escape of obnoxious gases, soot and the like into the room in wh1ch the heater is located.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same,

which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding partsin both the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the improvement, and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the same on the line 22 of Fig. '1. Within the lower portion of the casing or shell A is arranged a spreader B havin an, inclined surface, and supported-on a ho lowbase'C, into which opens the air supply pipe D extending to the outer air, as p ainly m dlcated in Fig. -1. The lower end of the spreader B terminates in a perforate apron E, in the form of a wire screen or the like, and

tothe under side of which passes the air by way of an opening C formed in the hollow base C supporting the spreader B. Now the crude oil or other 1i uid hydro-carbon fuel drops onto the spreader B from a tube F arranged in the top of'the casing A, the liquid hydro-carbon passing into thetube F from a drop feed, G connected with a. supply pipe H, having valves H, H, and connected with an overhead reservoir, so that the liquid fuel flowsby its own gravity fromthe reservoir through the pipe H into the drop feed G, from which the liquid fuel passesin drops to the tube F, to drop through the upper portion of the casing A onto the s reader B.

The liquid fuel in dropping onto t e spreader B is minutely divided, and in this state passes onto the apron E, to be there engaged by the Specification of Letters Patent.

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air passing through the meshes or perforations of the apron, with a view to' produce a highly combustible mixture burned within the casin A. l

The va ve H is set by the operator to regulate the amount of oil assing tothe drop feed G, and the valve $1 is automatically controlled by the surplus or non-consumed 'oil collecting on the bottom of the casirig A. Forthis pur' ose the stem of'the valve 2 is provided wit an arm I enga ed by one end of a rope I passing over a p ey I and sup-'- porting at itsother end a receptacle J, into which discharges a ipe K connected with a channel D formed 1n the air supply pipe D and registering with a port C formed in the base C. Thus the non-consumed 'oilon the of the casing A, and consequently a rapid evaporation of the oil takes place by the heating and spreading and the coming in contact with the fresh air, so that com lete combustion of the liquid fuel .takes p ace, In case too much oil is fed onto the spreader B and is consequently not consumed, such oil flows into the receptacle J, which causes closing of the valve H and consequently the supply of oil is cut offfor'the time being, and until the operator has properly set the valve H and emptied the receptacle J of its contents and returned the valve H into normal open posiv tion.

The casing A is provided with a smoke pipe L leading from one side of the casing at a point below the top of the casing a distance above the spreader B, as indicated in Fig. 1-.

Irrorder to supply a room with heated air, 100

a h'ot air pipe Nis arranged within the casing A, and this hot 'air pipe N has its entrance 'N connected with the outer air and extending through the bottom of the heater A, while the outlet end N of the hot air pipe N extends 105 through the side wall of the casing A. The or portion N 3 of thea'ir pipe N is U-shaped up and-is considerably enlarged in diameter relative to the entrance end N, and the outlet or discharge end N so that the air can readily 110 from the tube F throughthe heated interior expand in the U-shaped portion N and be thereof adjacent to the apron, a drop feed highly heated before plassmg by way of the delivering on to the spreader, a supply pipe discharge end N into t -e room. for the dro feed, anda'cut ofi for t e supply 15 "Having thus described my invention, I pipe contro ed by the excess of fuel delivered 5 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters to the spreader. I

Patentz. In testimony whereof I have signed m3 A liquid fuel burner, comprising a casing name to this specification in the presence 0'! havin an air supply pipein the bottom theretwo subscribing witnesses.

.of, a ollow base enclrchng thepipe, an in- WILLIE H. CALLIHAN 10 clined spreader sup orted by the base, a per- Witnesses:

'forate a ron-on the. ower end of the spreader, B. J. COBB,

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